Join us in exploring automated browser testing with Playwright, a browser testing automation tool, and Vite, proclaimed as “The Next Generation Frontend Tooling.” We’ll investigate how the Web Component Developers of the Web Implementation Guidelines Group are handling the automated part of accessibility testing of web components for the Illinois Toolkit. About this event: […]
What does https://ahs.illinois.edu/directory/, https://education.illinois.edu/directory, and https://socialwork.illinois.edu/directory/ have in common? They are running off the same directory platform, run by Technology Services, promoted by the Web Center of Expertise, developed by IT Partners @ Education, and modified for WordPress by Technology Services. How did this come to be? Learn how this was built to support multiple […]
IT Partners at the College of Education has long struggled with how we list our college offerings on our website. We’ve gone through several iterations of using AWS Open Search Service to create a faceted search, with a mix of server-side tools and client-side JavaScript. And now, as of writing, we’re implementing a new version […]
On 9/13, we released Version 3 of the Illinois Toolkit. In one sense, not much has changed: there still are components called “accordion” and “back to top”, you call them using HTML, and you still reference a JavaScript and CSS file to trigger the components. However, a gaggle of back-end changes now allows web developers […]
Senior Web Developer, College of Education
In this hands-on workshop we will walk you through deploying a .NET Core application to modern Azure App services (Platform-as-a-Service). Our workshop will include a demo of how to build the necessary infrastructure components in Azure as well as how to deploy a sample .NET Core App “Hello World”. In the last two years we […]
Been meaning to get around to setting up Google Analytics on PIE or another WordPress site, but intimidated by the hill to climb? Join the ad-hoc Google Analytics team for a hands-on lesson in how to start from square 1 and end up with a fully set up Google Analytics instance on your WordPress site […]
We will share our journey of how we transitioned .NET Core applications from traditional IIS servers (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) to modern Azure App services (Platform-as-a-Service). Our presentation will include the reasons ‘why’ different stakeholders at IT Partners such as managers, software engineers, and system engineers decided to move in the direction of the Azure Cloud. In the […]
Interested in learning more about digital accessibility and making campus more inclusive? Join this session to learn about the IT Accessibility Liaison program from a panel of Liaisons (Bryan Jonker, Cindy McKendall, Liz Shallenberger, and Helen Zhou) moderated by Christy Blew with Matt Macomber watching chat and organized by Leslie Sherman. IT Accessibility Liaisons receive […]
What does the College of Education and Gies College of Business have in common? It turns out a lot. Both have online courses and programs, both have potential students that are interested in said programs, and both have a website. When Gies was building their online program website, learn how Gies and Education used the […]